Prices of Very Large Flat TVs are Falling Fast

[Blumlein 88]

Thanks for the update! Video technology has been advancing at an amazing rate for all display types over the last few years..
I wish I had a room for a REALLY large screen. 100" is currently the financial break point for LED type screens, with 150+ inches being easily affordable from projection, if you have the right room. Who knows what the options may be in 10 years.

They do have acoustically transparent projector screens. You could probably get a 100 inch or a bit more in a roll down screen in your space.

They also have UST projectors Ultra Short Throw. These use lasers and sit right at the base of the screen while projecting pictures up to about 150 inch size. That way you don't need a ceiling mounted or out in the room projector in the way. Prices of those are a bit more and needs a special screen which is more, but those are also getting cheaper.

 

[JSmith]

They do have acoustically transparent projector screens.

Yep, many movie theatres use them.


JSmith

 

[pablolie]

Thanks for the update! Video technology has been advancing at an amazing rate for all display types over the last few years..
I wish I had a room for a REALLY large screen. 100" is currently the financial break point for LED type screens, with 150+ inches being easily affordable from projection, if you have the right room. Who knows what the options may be in 10 years.

Honestly if it was for image quality alone I am utterly and totally fine with what I got. I have not in any way seen a leaps&bounds improvement and I appreciate image quality because I mostly watch nature documentaries. I have a deep aversion of bullcrap action of superhero movies with utterly implausible FX. Unless it's Jurassic Park. :-D

What drives me is the fact my trusty TV (which had the best Samsung panel back then) has a large bezel that looks a bit dated. I know that's a silly motivation but hey I like modern, minimalist design around me,

 

[JSmith]

image quality

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JSmith

 

[EJ3]

Even on this forum I’m older than average. My family got a TV when I was 11. It died after four years and they didn’t replace it.

I didn’t have a TV until married at age 24. Then we bought a five inch B&W Sony, which was our only TV for about eight years.

Eventually we got a 20 inch Proton, which had audio line out. That would have been in the 80s, and I haven’t used TV speakers since.

We got an old black & white Admiral from my grand parents when I was 8. That is the first TV I remember. Later, also from my grandparents, when I was around 13 (1970), we got a big console that had pretty good sound.
My wife & I have not had a TV since 2007. Typically we have other things to do than watch TV (there are more fun things to do with each other than watch the BOOB tube).
I was given a 48" 2 year old Samsung about 2 years ago. I never went and got it. (It's still available to me, all I have to do is go get it & set them up with some kind of external sound for their other TV (which they will pay me to do).
I intend to this year ether get it or something else, hook up a good outdoor (or in the attic, more than likely, due to you cannot find my home on Google maps because of the tree cover). I know others that are getting 36 channels of over the air HD & I have an oPPo 205 UDP that I can hook to it (I have been collecting 4K movies on disk over the years).
Generally, we'd rather go somewhere, to the car races (Winter National Drag racing or something like that), out in the boat, or to some walking trail, drive through Appalachia, whatever.
A TV is way down at the bottom of our list of things to have or interact with.

 

[JSmith]

We got an old black & white Admiral from my grand parents when I was 8. That is the first TV I remember.

This was my first TV;

A part of me misses CRT's.


JSmith

 

[Devnull]

A large TV consumes twice as much as a UST projector, cannot be moved easily, does not have a lifespan of 30,000 hours.

I'd be pissed if I only got 30k hours out of a LCD TV. That's the diag screen from my Sony 46EX500 in the workshop. 58k hours and still going strong.

 

[Esprit]

I don't keep the same projector for 20 years: technology evolves.
Good day

 

[SIY]

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How about 60,000 hours?

I do like soomth colors. And three digit precision in comparisons.

 

[Oddball]

Sure it evolves. All around, but in some areas a bit faster.

Hisense’s 2025 TVs go real big, including a 116-inch mini-LED TV – the largest one yet

Big TV news from Hisense at CES 2025

www.techradar.com

Price of 116" will likely be steep, but in couple of years it will drop below $10K for older models (my uneducated guess though). 2024 TCL 115" Max is already stunning - have seen it in high end setup at one party and its 20k zones do seem to work better than 5k zones on 98" equivalent model. New 2025 Hisense (and TCL) models take it a bit further with the RGB mini LED backlight.

From the link: Hisense’s largest-ever mini-LED TV uses a new RGB mini-LED backlight design with tens of thousands of RGB optical lenses. According to Hisense, its ability to dim individual colors allows for 97% BT.2020 color space coverage and up to 10,000 nits of peak brightness. The TV has a 40mm ultra-slim profile and a 6.2.2-channel built-in speakers with Hisense’s CineStage X surround sound.

 

[Sal1950]

They do have acoustically transparent projector screens. You could probably get a 100 inch or a bit more in a roll down screen in your space.

Not really, the available wall would just allow for that screen but there'd be no room left for the L speaker.
That's OK, my neighbors already make fun of me having an 85 in my little house. LOL

 

[Esprit]

There are also floor rising screen...

 

[Esprit]

According to Hisense, its ability to dim individual colors allows for 97% BT.2020 color space coverage and up to 10,000 nits of peak brightness.

Just to clarify (not using televisions...): what is all that brightness for?
PS Trilaser projectors reach and some even exceed 97%.
Hisense is among the main manufacturers of "laser TVs".

 

[Sal1950]

Just to clarify (not using televisions...): what is all that brightness for?

Not requiring a darkened room for viewing?

 

[Esprit]

Not requiring a darkened room for viewing?

Now, lights fully on and lights off.

 

[Oddball]

They might have gotten a bit carried away with nits though. There are few masters done at 4k nits, predominantly 1k nits. Hollywood started remastering their libraries to 4k nits so can sell us again yet another iteration of the same title.

2024 mini-LED generation tops at 5k nits (short bursts and small window though) and can't imagine one would need more brightness indoors. But will be interesting to see how they will actually use 10k nits.

 

[Esprit]

Photos taken now of this YouTube video, with iPhone, 3x zoom, distance 4.5 meters from the screen.
There are tons of better quality products on the market (and more expensive).
But I'm satisfied with the result and the 120" for less than €3,000.

 

[Timcognito]

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[EJ3]

There are also floor rising screen...

Again, takes up an incredible amount of space (or makes the space around it and above it when it is down, useless), unless space is not an issue.
As do the UST projector setups, even more so of a space issue.

 

[Esprit]

Again, takes up an incredible amount of space (or makes the space around it and above it when it is down, useless), unless space is not an issue.

I disagree, having a UST projector, but I don't have to sell you anything so I wish you a good night.